Edo

Boys' name

Rich + guard, through Edoardo

Edo has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Edo, 2017

1 in 715,000

Edo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edo: meaning, origin, and history

Rich + guard, through Edoardo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edo means

Edo belongs to the name family reached through Edo → Edoardo. Its meaning is “rich + guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Edo is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edoardo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Edo is pronounced /ˈɛ.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Edo between 1914 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,003 in 1914.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Edo?

Edo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 370,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Edo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edo was born before 1996 — so the typical Edo is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Edo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1923 (8)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,003; 1914

Edo around the world

Where Edo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1926–1935
#686
in 1935

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Edo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,003; 1914
Peak year: 1923; 8 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 41
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Edo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Edonis Edon Edoardo Fredo Laredo Edouard Godofredo Sigfredo Manfredo Willfredo Luisalfredo Sigifredo Josealfredo Wilfredo Alfredo

Sibling names for Edo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Filomena Novella Aletha Dorcas Vernice Albertha Bethel Rosina

For a brother

Rubin Bertram Alvis Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Merritt

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